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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 3d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

If you in any way suggest that we "earned" this upon ourselves you will be blocked faster than you can blink. Profs are being fired, threatened, doxxed, harassed as a years long pattern now but we have reached a new phase with what has happened with Dr Bray, a fellow historian.

Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 2d

Please acknowledge what is happening to American professors right now.

We do not deserve this.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

But the few last weeks have escalated into outright firings of all kinds of professors (even for tenured ones), as well as intense harassment and threats and now, attempts to prevent us, apparently, from leaving the country if we wish to do so.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

There is a Professor Watchlist you can look at if you can stomach it. Obviously, this campaign has been mainly (not always but mainly) targeted at folks of color, LGBTQ folks, and women until now.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

Of course, American professors have always been harassed, doxed, fired, and threatened for their research and for their opinions. The McCarthy era is notable here but it happened before the 1950s too.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

First, I am glad that Dr. Bray got out safely last night from the U.S. Good. Next, here's what you need to know/how to explain it to others. This is a new and extremely frightening stage.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19h

"An underrated strategy of surviving an authoritarian takeover is to seem like an absolute moron who can't figure out orders well enough to follow them."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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🏊🏼‍♀️🚴🏽‍♀️🌻 @aumakuahonu.bsky.social · 26d

and this .. oc in 2022.. with no follow up by media/punditry /leadership into the complicity of Rasheem Carter's lynching involving an openly neoconfed / klan sympathetic sheriff's dept

www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

Who killed Rasheem Carter?

A shattered skeleton. Gruesome rumors. A brutal history of lynchings. And tight-lipped cops who quickly said "no foul play."

www.motherjones.com

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🏊🏼‍♀️🚴🏽‍♀️🌻 @aumakuahonu.bsky.social · 26d

just linking a few articles .. just bc.. this has been an ongoing horror targeting countless Black Ams in MS (recently .. as in the literal and brutal lynching of Rasheem Carter in Taylorsville MS et al ) w/ MSM punditry not giving it much attention ...

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/...

‘Lynchings in Mississippi never stopped’

Police ruled the deaths suicides; the families say their loved ones were lynched.

www.washingtonpost.com

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 15h

RIP Diane Keaton 🙏

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

DAILY MEMO: In New Tactic, ICE Kidnaps Random Bystanders Near Foiled Raid Sites 🧵 2 Parts

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 14h

Gene Hackman, Robert Redford and Diane Keaton all going in the same year. Absolute titans of '70s cinema

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 15h

Rest in Peace, Diane Keaton. Thank you for your work and for your many wonderful performances. My favorite was your role as Louise Bryant in "REDS" (1981). 🗃️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ur1...

"Alone with your work" -- Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson in Reds

YouTube video by David Gibson

www.youtube.com

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Courtney Howard @lulamaybelle.bsky.social · 14h

Diane Keaton was a world class actress & fashion icon. California gal with quintessential New York style. Her films colored our lives: Kay in The Godfather films, Annie Hall, Looking For Mr. Goodbar, Baby Boom, Something’s Gotta Give, The First Wives Club, Shoot The Moon. #RIPDianeKeaton

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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🏊🏼‍♀️🚴🏽‍♀️🌻 @aumakuahonu.bsky.social · 1d

This is commendable.. He's brave.
Only issue is a corrupt fash MAGA aligned FOP (at the national level) pressures/threatens local and state depts And depending on depts and location.. not every LEO is like this unfortunately.

Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 2d

Portland PD threatens ICE with arrest! More. Of. This. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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🏊🏼‍♀️🚴🏽‍♀️🌻 @aumakuahonu.bsky.social · 1d

A lot here, so posting a few excerpts.. All of it relevant:

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Lyndie Chiou @lyndie.bsky.social · 7d

The Ghost of Cassiopeia nebula. Cassiopeia (the bright star) is an Ethiopian queen in Greek mythology. Her star illuminates nearby dust clouds, imparting a ghostly, ethereal appearance.

Image credit: my tiny telescope (about 4 hours of light collecting).

#science #astronomy 🔭👩🏾‍🔬

A nebula with red and blue colors faintly glows in the light of a very bright star.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 2d

I'm still waiting for someone to ask Ro Khanna how he possibly could be pursuing this impartially given how personally friendly he is with people close to Epstein!

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing how no one asks officials:
1) Why didn't you pursue the Epstein case earlier? He was indicted two decades ago.
2) Why did the past three admins appoint people tied to Epstein/Maxwell to major cabinet roles?

The key to whether a politician is bullshitting: will they discuss Robert Maxwell?

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🏊🏼‍♀️🚴🏽‍♀️🌻 @aumakuahonu.bsky.social · 16d

"The stories that faded in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder are different. They are serious, and Kirk also covered them. Kirk was close to Trump and his staff. He wanted the Epstein case examined, though he vacillated due to his administrative ties."

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

New interview! On the fiction of antifa and how it's weaponized against innocent people: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtTW...

Sarah Kendzior: The Fiction of Antifa, Plus, Answering the Epstein “Files” Question

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

www.youtube.com

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